First think about how you’ll use the home. Do you have enough furniture to fill 2 or 3 extra rooms – or to fill extra-large sized rooms? And what about those extra rooms? Do you really need a wine cellar? Will you actually use the office or the exercise room? If you’ll use them, you should go for it. But if they’ll sit empty then they’ll become “junk repositories” and a drain on your resources.

So first consider your lifestyle and what you’ll actually use and enjoy.

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Then think about the amount of money you’ll have for upkeep on that home. The larger the home, the more there is to clean and to maintain.

Start with cleaning. If you’re a do-it-yourself house cleaner, how much time do you want to devote to vacuuming, dusting, and scrubbing? How much time do you have to devote to those tasks? Will it be a family responsibility, or will one family member start feeling put-upon?

If you don’t have the time to keep up with a large home, can you afford to hire someone to come in every few days? Do you even want someone working in the Beverly Hills homes for sale ? I know many people who say “It would be so nice to have a cleaning lady, but… I don’t want some outsider going through my closets and drawers when I’m not home.”